Displaced South African Andrew Dosunmu — fashion stylist and music video director — is hot property in New York. He spoke to Tony Karon ANDREW DOSUNMU is pacing around his sparse studio apartment in Manhattan’s fashion district, anxious for feedback on his directorial debut music video. There is no furniture beyond the functional — a […]
Gavin du Venage DOCTORS at Baragwanath Hospital have begun to arm themselves with chemical sprays to defend themselves against patients, following a number of attacks that has left at least one person dead. Several weeks ago a doctor accidentally killed a haemophiliac patient when he tried to fend the man off. A senior doctor told […]
Reluctant to release any of its vast tracts of land, the Defence Force is being threatened with land invasions by displaced communities, writes Eddie Koch THE South African National Defence Force has come under fire for scuttling land reform in parts of the country where the army controls large tracts of unused territory — much […]
Ian Moultrie, a private shareholder in Iscor, takes issue with ANC MP Jenny Schreiner’s comments on opposition to the proposed Saldanha Steel Project JENNY SCHREINER is reported in last week’s Mail & Guardian as saying: “It is incredibly arrogant to assume that only the bourgeoisie are concerned about the environment.” Nobody I know is making […]
Internal divisions in the IFP run even deeper than Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s recent attacks on whites in the party would suggest, report Ann Eveleth and Mehlo The house of cards the Inkatha Freedom Party stacked so hastily last year in a bid to project itself as a broad national party is swaying precariously this week, with […]
Robert Dowse, visiting professor of political studeies ar Rhodes University, rebuts the views of Prof MW Makgoba published in the M&G last week Professor Makgoba asks the question “what is a university in modern Africa?” and appears to believe that they should not be the same as elsewhere. Universities should, he suggests, be transformed “in […]
Eddie Koch ARMSCOR officials involved in the arms-for-Yemen scandal are offering British defence experts massive fees to give evidence on behalf of the armaments corporation at a Cameron Commission inquiry into South Africa’s arms trade policy. An Armscor team has just returned from an all-expenses- paid trip to England during which a number of prominent […]
Shirley Kossick ELECTRICITY by Victoria Glendinning (Hutchinson, VICTORIA GLENDINNING is an accomplished and highly regarded writer, best known for her authoritative biographies of Rebecca West, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell and Elizabeth Bowen. Her most recent biography — on Anthony Trollope — was published to widespread acclaim in 1992 and re-affirmed her status as a thorough […]
The war of words over the Shell House “massacre” 14 months ago has obscured what really happened on the day. Gavin Du Venage gives his eyewitness account MARCH 28 1994. I arrived at Shell House shortly after 11am to do a story on a shooting incident that had taken place earlier that morning. Shots had […]
President Nelson Mandela has been ill-advised in allowing his political opponents to score so many points around the Shell House massacre. He would have done better to clear the air around that terrible incident a long time ago. What is emerging, at least from the full eyewitness account that we carry on Page 7 was […]